Two tennis balls surgically removed from scrub python

April 11, 2024 7:13 AM

Two tennis balls surgically removed from scrub python. A Far North Queensland wildlife carer says he has seen just about everything in his 20 years on the job until he was called about a surprise find in a Cooktown backyard.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (10 comments total)

Eating tennis balls, blankets and light bulbs? Snakes are...ambitious.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:37 AM on April 11, 2024 [2 favorites]

Some of them eat elephants, you know.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:41 AM on April 11, 2024 [3 favorites]

"I don't like the idea of passing a tennis ball whole myself," he said.

Words to live by, for snakes and humans.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:43 AM on April 11, 2024 [3 favorites]

Who among us has not accidentally swallowed a tennis ball and then accidentally swallowed a tennis ball a second time?
posted by AlSweigart at 8:13 AM on April 11, 2024 [9 favorites]

wow, glad snek-o is ok!! I was expecting a much larger snake, damn!
posted by supermedusa at 9:53 AM on April 11, 2024 [3 favorites]

Oh I see! 'Scrub' is part of the python's species name, not a derisory epithet -- which would have been a bit cruel, TBH.
posted by BCMagee at 11:00 AM on April 11, 2024 [5 favorites]

I really want to do a snake parody of No Scrubs now, but nothing comes easily to mind.
posted by jenfullmoon at 12:22 PM on April 11, 2024 [2 favorites]

Don't draw little faces on tennis balls.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:42 PM on April 11, 2024

Wouldn't that make it a "ball" python?
posted by Chuffy at 3:43 PM on April 11, 2024 [1 favorite]

The link on that page to a story of a carpet python eating a slipper has an even more amusing X-ray (not so amusing for the python, obviously). Then there's the python stuffed with a stuffed toy...
posted by rory at 11:25 PM on April 11, 2024